And the police were not interested in her: the pathologist estimated that Alison had been killed at six o’clock and there were plenty of people who had seen Michelle in the clinic then, arranging the flowers with John. Lisa and Michelle Taylor grew up in Forest Hill in south east London in a stable family in a quiet street. Michelle made friends again with both of them and when they were married in Ireland in the summer of 1990, she went to the wedding. The police were in the process of dealing with a complaint from the Taylor family, regarding their use of bad language when interrogating Michelle, when they stumbled across her diary. He was co-author of Killing Rage - the autobiography of former IRA supergrass Eamon Collins - published by Granta Books in 1997.

As soon as Lisa and Michelle were led away in tears to begin their life sentence in prison, their parents, Ann and Del, decided to fight. Michelle also admitted at trial that she felt jealous of Alison and that she still loved John, despite the affair "dying". They went to school, went out dancing, went to work, planned to get married one day and never threatened for a moment to break out of the obvious course which life had planned for them.After studying Politics at Leicester University, he trained as a journalist on the Wolverhampton Express and Star, then worked as a casual reporter on the current-affairs TV programme This Week. alison shaughnessy murder: taylor sisters appeal; england: london: high court: ext yellow prison van bringing michelle and lisa taylor to court as. There was no scientific evidence to link the girls to the crime, no skin under the dead girl’s nails, no tell-tale hair on her clothes, no footprint in her blood and, perhaps most surprising of all, not one spot of blood from any of the 54 wounds on either girl or on their clothes.

When asked how she felt about Alison, she responded "When you see a person and you don't see the other person with them, it doesn't really enter your head. Shaughnessy was born Alison Blackmore in London in 1969, [1] and was raised in the city as part of a large Irish family. To reach home, she would have walked to the bus-stop, taken a bus to Waterloo, then a train to Clapham Junction, and walked to her flat. After the murder on Monday, 3 June 1991, the inquiry team from Battersea Police Station had a number of early leads, and also a hunch about Michelle Taylor. Report including interview with solicitor Michael Holmes following the appeal court decision to free two sisters, Michelle and Lisa Taylor, convicted of the murder of Alison Shaughnessy.Diary full of hatred gave killers away: Alison Shaughnessy died in a frenzied attack that followed careful planning. In 2001, the case was highlighted as such when a trial of professional footballers Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer collapsed due to press and media intrusion.